I understand that within the first couple centuries of 1054 the Eastern Churches made a couple offers for reconciliation. Without knowing too much of the finer details I bet Catholics are upset in hindsight that they didn't take the offer when they had the chance. Now theres been a thousand years of ecumenical councils and decisions made separate from each other which would have to be untangled before any sort of unity could be achieved, completely demolishing the possibility of unity.
The Fathers constantly called for, and prayed for, unity, and Pope Leo XIV appears to be continuing that great tradition. He kicked off his Pontificate with a call for unity within the Catholic Church, within Christianity, and across the world. I pray my staunch and unwavering support of the Catholic serves this purpose, and may the Lord forgive me for having taken part in divisive rhetoric.
Long story, but mysticism is essentially what brought be to Christ, it's the core of my spiritual life. As I shared previously, Brother Lawrence, the Cloud of Unknowing, François Fénelon, of course, the Carmelite titans, St Theresa of Ávila, St John of the Cross, Padre Pio and St Thérèse of Lisieux are mainstays of my spiritual journey.
Some good stuff from him, but he often comes off as an arrogant kid. Happens a lot with young people becoming famous in some sphere and they start to think a little too good of themselves.
That's the problem with these youtube theologians. Either they don't do enough research or they're one of those overly read know-it-alls who don't really know how to filter information.
That happened just a few days ago on Cameron Bertuzzi's channel. I didn't watch it and I am not going to, but from the comments it was basically a shitshow, one of the Catholics lost his shit and so forth.
There's no reason to watch his stuff if we are being honest. He's just a kid in seminary trying to do online apologetics (AKA religious bloodsports) while getting razzled with Catholicism and Orthodoxy. He just needs to focus on finishing seminary.
Your, let's call it unusual, position on Greek not being the original writen language of any of the Gospels draws into question anything you say about them. P.S. claiming that "better scholars" are the ones that agree with you when the vast majority of Bible-believing Christian scholars do not agree with you does not strengthen your position.
Christians have largely failed to take on the task of using YouTube for effective apologetics tailored for the platform, so good on him for realising it as a much needed mission field.
He tries to explain other Christian views, but he doesn't "get" them.
I may have been wrong about the Gospels other than Matthew being in Greek, but your failure to understand the nature of the Greek language (i.e. thinking the difference between petros and petras matters) calls into question anything you have to say about them.
Appeal to majority is a logical fallacy, and if we're only talking about whether they were in greek, then it doesn't mean they agree with your ridiculous interpretation either.
I know I said that denominational fights make me depressed, but now that I think about it, I feel this way only about those denominations that I know as being branched out for political reasons. So far, those, to me, are Catholics, Orthodox, Lutherans and maybe some other classic reformed denominations, like Episcopalians, but I don't know much about them yet.
The Apostolic Churches are:
Air-conditionism was condemned as a heresy by Pope Zephyr the Great in the late-7th century during the great Airian controversy at the Council of Fantioch
Sounds like you prefer the denominations that revere the sacraments.
The real question is whether you prefer pews (cringe) or you stand for 95% of the service (trad and true)
it is infallible. Just because it's pastoral doesn't mean it's not part of the Magisterium, and thus requires religious submission of intellect and will
Moralistic therapeutic deism. It's everywhere.
